6/23 - "Maybe I’ll start carrying a motorcycle helmet around"

6/23 - “Maybe I’ll start carrying a motorcycle helmet around”

I’m not certain that I’ve ever been on a motorcycle before. In actuality, I have little interest in hopping onto to a Harley anytime soon. Maybe if I lived in Montana, and not in Los Angeles, I’d be more interested in owning a bike. There’s little that’s appealing to me about having to dangerously weave in and out of traffic on the crowded freeways.

I think it makes much more sense for me to simply purchase a motorcycle helmet. It’s cheaper than purchasing the bike too. All I really want to do is walk around with the helmet anyway. You’ve seen these guys. When someone walks into a room, or a public place carrying a helmet, this instantly demands a certain level of respect.

But what happens when someone discovers I don’t actually own a motorcycle? Well, all I can hope is that they’d appreciate the hilarity of my brilliant charade….

The Stabbing Pen on June 23, 2009 | Filed Under Philosophies / Beliefs / Ideas, Travel & Transportation

3 Comments

The Constant Complainer on June 24th, 2009

Motorcycles are dangerous. You won’t shoot your eye out, you’ll just kill youself…

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Extreme John on June 25th, 2009

I had a crotch rocket about 10 years ago, and after an old lady ran me over and kept going someone said to me, “There are two types of Motorcycle riders. One’s that have gone down and one’s that will go down.”

Even though I still deal with one of my injuries on a daily basis and I have a sexy road rash for stories I decided to get another bike a few years ago.

I was back to being an animal, had to have a bike. Walked in and paid cash for a brand new $10,000 Crotch Rocket that was way more power than I ever dealt with on a bike before. But again I had to have it.

I drove the motorcycle about 7 times and put a total of 40 miles on it, it sat in my garage for a year when I finally decided to give it to my cousin who still rides bikes.

I just didn’t have the same urge to watch every angle of my body as I rode to make sure I didn’t get creamed by any one of the 40 billion blind old people that drive around here daily.

Get the helmet it’s safer and who gives a shit if people find out you don’t have a bike, tell them it’s an accessory.

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